On Wednesday, President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton for president during the Democratic National Convention.

“There has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the United States of America,” Obama claimed.

He heaped praise on Clinton’s achievements in the field of foreign policy and bragged that the former secretary of state would finish off the Islamic State.

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“She has the judgment, the experience, and the temperament to meet the threat from terrorism. It’s not new to her,” Obama said, again failing to name the source of the wave of terrorism that is rocking the West.

“I know Hillary won’t relent until ISIL is destroyed. She’ll finish the job – and she’ll do it without resorting to torture, or banning entire religions from entering our country. She is fit to be the next commander in chief,” Obama said later.

His comments about Clinton’s experience and judgment on foreign policy issues raised eyebrows in Israel and coincided with the publication of a report that suggests Clinton still wants Israel to negotiate the future of the Golan Heights with the Syrian dictator and mass murderer Bashar Assad.

INN, citing the Lebanese news site Al-Jumhuria, reported that Assad had discussed the Clinton plan, which dates back to the time the Democratic candidate was secretary of state, with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a secret visit to Russia last month.

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Under the plan, Israel must give up the strategically crucial Golan Heights in exchange for a peace agreement with Syria.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has recently made clear that Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights that were captured during the Syrian attack on Israel in the 1967 Six Day War.

In April this year, the Israeli PM convened his cabinet on the mountainous plateau that overlooks most of northern Israel.

“The time has come after 40 years for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will remain forever under Israeli sovereignty,” Netanyahu said the time.

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He was referring to the lack of international recognition for the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights in 1981.

“I decided to hold this meeting on the Golan Heights to send a clear message,” Netanyahu said in his opening remarks.

“The Golan Heights will always stay in Israeli hands. Israel will never leave the Golan Heights,” he added while mocking those who think that Israel should negotiate about the future of the plateau.

“Should we negotiate with Jabhat al-Nusra the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria or with Islamic State?” Netanyahu said, a cynical reference to the major Islamist power that control large parts of Syria today.

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Obama’s comments about Clinton’s foreign policy achievements caused a commentator of Channel 10 News in Israel to recall the disaster in Libya where Clinton’s strategy led to genocide, chaos and the rise of ISIS who seized a significant part of Libya’s coastline in 2015.

Others recalled how after the start of the Syrian war, Clinton said that Assad was a reformer and later remained passive when Obama changed his mind on U.S. intervention in Syria after Assad used chemical weapons against the population in Syria.

As for Clinton’s abilities to finish off the Islamic State, there are many people who say that Clinton, together with Obama, are responsible for the rise of ISIS.

One does not have to look at what her opponent Donald Trump said ten days ago to understand this.

“Hillary Clinton invented ISIS with her stupid choices. She is responsible for ISIS. She led Barack Obama because I don’t think he knew anything. I think he relied on her. As Bernie Sanders said, ‘Her judgment is so bad.’ She’s got bad judgment. She’s got bad instincts,” Trump said during an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes on July 17.

Clinton showed how she misjudged the situation in Iraq where al-Qaeda was waiting for her and Obama to make good on their election promises to withdraw the U.S. Army from the country after President’s George W. Bush’s successful surge against an Islamist army led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The core of this army later founded the Islamic State.

In November 2007, as a presidential candidate, Clinton made clear that she was the architect of this new Iraqi policy that would end in the rise of the Islamic State.

Here’s what she wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs in which she outlaid her Iraq strategy:

Ending the war in Iraq is the first step toward restoring the United States’ global leadership. The war is sapping our military strength, absorbing our strategic assets, diverting attention and resources from Afghanistan, alienating our allies, and dividing our people. The war in Iraq has also stretched our military to the breaking point. We must rebuild our armed services and restore them body and soul.

We must withdraw from Iraq in a way that brings our troops home safely, begins to restore stability to the region, and replaces military force with a new diplomatic initiative to engage countries around the world in securing Iraq’s future. To that end, as president, I will convene the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the secretary of defense, and the National Security Council and direct them to draw up a clear, viable plan to bring our troops home, starting within the first 60 days of my administration.

Seven years later, the Islamic State conquered a large part of Iraq and caused the country to fall apart and to descend into chaos. As a result, the United States had to deploy about 6,000 special forces in Iraq who are now trying to help the Iraqi Army recapture territories under ISIS control.

As for the rest of the Middle East, many Arab countries are still in turmoil and are fighting Islamist gangs after uprisings that Clinton and Obama mistakenly viewed as the beginning of an “Arab Spring” that would bring stability, prosperity and democracy to the Middle East.